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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-5-26, Page 641.00.1}, By T.he Law of Sh.. *0..4 Taton...... By M RLIN MOORE TAYLOR (Capyriohted) Synopsis of Preceding Chapters. • Louie Vogel, a neterious criminel, is offered $5,000 by Lebrun to kidnap judge Graham, tereor of evil -doers. As Lebnzn leaves "Silver Danny's' saloon, he is observed by Ralph Charlton of the Department of Just- tice who has dubbed him "The Gray Wolf.' Vogel takes the $1,000 given him to bind the compact to Stella Lathrop, a country girl he had foiled starving in the city and befriended. Stella is now earning honest wagee in a factory and refuses to marry Vogel unless he gives up his evil ways. She has, however, fallen a convert to Bolshevism. Vogel carries out his pact. Judge Graham lies bound M a shack some miles out of the city. "The Gray Wolf" demands that the Judge should let certain prisoners off with merely a fine. Threats df death for himself and torture for his son have nn weight with the just Judge. Charlton becomes suspicious of "The Gray Wolf" and Vogel. Stella Lathrop joins the Inner Council, Charlton visited Stella to find out if she knew of Vogel's where- abouts, and when leaving the hotel sew Lebrune break into her room and Vogel rush to her reseue. Lebrune got the wriest of the fight and pUrsUed pally, at all. He covered Ins tra.cks Vogel and Stella in a motor run well. He even procured for my sign - the hut where Judge Graham ie im- ature one of the record cards of each prisoned, but was frightened into re -1 of the banks. He always eeerneci so turning to the city. Stella insisted willing to take upon: himself the task upon taking the unconscious judge of paying out the money in the guar - with them, in their flight to safety. eters to which • the council decreed it Charlton favacles the Inner Council. should go. I signed the cheques with under guise of a messenger from head- him and he took them, supposedly to quarters. obtain the cash and pay it out. gues.s he did pay it out, but the cash was net withdrawal from the banks where it was supposed to be, because it never had been deposited there in the first place." "How much was there?" asked Charlton, carelesely. Inwardly he was exulting at the ease with which he had the time -worn ee:.pedierut of pinching himself s;lyly to verify, the fact that Lebrune -was actually- nerrating these seerets to lane "What could I do?" esked "The Gray Wolf" piteously. "I spent thou- sands of my OWT1 1110Tley to try and SaVO him from conviction. If it had been any one but Judge Grabam I might have tried even to bribe the court,- But it was no use. Then, just a few days before the time. set for the passing Of sentence,' I sent Neilsen another note telling him that I had done -my beet and begging him to turn the money over to me. Aad what do ou thirk was his reply? Just,, thre • Words, eerawled on a „piece el dirty • 1' • th erds • - paper. , "I have evereeaohed myself, plied Lebrune. He twiSted in his seat 1 was fairly desperate, and as a last heard or under observation. "Perhapsii,InuedziviedGT:i'emlintatnicial'i'iy.11e i_niade ti.. -m state - youmake sure that they were nee eeoelele,„ I resort I hired a gangster to kidnap you a lready know that Neilson, 04f the meri conedcted beforO Federal Charlton hoped that his exclamation Judge Graham) is, or was, treasurer; conveyed enough surprise to satielfY of the loeal organization." 1"The Gray Wolf." He had known all railed the time that the statemeet was corn - With difficult!, , Charlton rest it. ing and he had been trying to work a staet, This was ems to him. Neil - himself up to the proper pitele son heti been regarded by the Govern - "Yes I had the Judge kidnapped. me/A as only small fry in Beishe1vist circles. i I threatened him with death with see- ing hie son tortured before his eyes, "When he was arrested," went on with eyerytaiing 1 corm thinIc of that Lebrune, "the money, all of the money might move him. I offered him anY which we had on hand, was supposed amount he might name if he would to be on deposit in various banks, sub- And some way to keep Neilson and ject to withdrawal only upon order of the others from the pemteetiary. the Inner Council and upon cheques clereet cue he reply?. signed by both myself, as president, "He told me just what Neilson did: and Neilson, as treasurer, not of the He told me to go to hell," wailed Le - council but of a company supposedly brune. Charlton almost laughed engaged in steel's and bmells tra.nsaa" aloud. He had imagination and he thins. There is no money in any of knew Judge Graham. The mental pic- the banks!" thee of the old fire-eater telling "The "What!" exclaimed Charlton. Gray Wolf" to seek a warmer climate "There was no money?" was mirth -producing. But the Goy_ "Neilsen has stolen it," replied Le- ernment man choked doevn. his amuse- brune. "He had never deposited it in /Tient and inquired gravely where the the banks to the credit of the 'cone- Judge was now, Strive as he would to make the question seem trivial, he feared that Lebrune might detect the impatience with whichelie hung upon the next words. "I don't kno-w." "You don't know?" Charlton, stung into real surprise, seized the other's arm. "Did you have him killed? Did he escape? Why, man alive, how could you, be so careless?" ' "It was all because of a woman," confessed Lebrune, "an ignorant little fool who hung around lapping up everything in the radical lines. Ignor- ant, nrountain-bred little tigress. But beautiful! Oh, n-ly friend, you should e seen her. Such elormus auburn CHAPTER X. Lebrune Exposes His Hand. "I am afraid I have overplayed " • ; things,- confessed Lebrune when he had joined Charlton in the street and they had sought a secluded bench in a near -by perk. "Overplayed"?' echoed Charlton. "I duped this clever rascal into eevealmg theught your plans were remarkably the very things Which the 'Departanent cenelse and well formed. I can't see of justice had been seeking to unearth .where you have attempted toe Much." for =vette. • "No, beceuee you de not know "A millien and a quarter, sup - everything, Morris," Thus Charlton 'nese,' was the reply. "It would am- ; hedintroduced himself, that being his ount to about that now, with all the • Middle name. "1 ha-ve confided many withdrawals checked out. • I _have, it things to the Inner Council, but in down in an account book semewhere." t others I have played a lone hand. It "A million and a' quarter, eh.?" Was safer, I judged, not to let too Charlton said it as calmly as if he had , many know everything. Yon never eepected a eum of that reagnitirde to latoev•whether the person in whom you be named. "That includes the Money • confide is square ex not. Some one from all sources, I presume.?" , • • - ?Might upset plans." • "Yes, the local share of the fund t "You are perfectly right," agreed fre•m Russia, the appropriation from the Goverrteent man. "Tell the wrong, the Presidents' council, the money ' person and it might get to the Govern- raised here and the. special fund for 1/tient and that would mean prison for .earrying out the plans. here." - • Seine one. There is net much sym-1 "How did. you discover. all this?" !Why with disleyalty just now. The • was the• next question, •, ' ' ; people are prone to forgive and forget They fight bravely and with- out shrinking. But after the fight they are magnanimous, -they cherish no they meet the one-time enerne-"more than halfway " "Fools," sneered "The Gray Wolf." , "That is what makes it so easy to signature must appear upon all acteme and plot and plan their de- cheques. They told me that et -ruction. They let C-ermany work there was no such account at her will in this country without lifting that bank. I protested. I swore, a finger to stop her. Ven Bernstorff, I threatened. They told me to Von Papen, Von Rintenlin, all of the run along before they, called the police Kaiser's master spies, pulled the wool and had my sanity tested. Told me to over the eyes of the Government for bring the handbook which showed the maths. Not a one of them paid the company ever had deposited any penalty. In Europe it 1,voulki have bee -n money there. That was at the first different. Detection one day, convic- bank. I went to the others, one after tion the next, a firing squad the next." the other. It was the same story over ; "That is just. why the American and over. Neilson had not had any people are in no mood to be trifled account at any of them. with now," said Charlton. "They trust- "Man, I was fairly insane. I didn't ed Germany, and Gerniany betrayed dare go to jail, see him and demand that trust,. She honeycombed the na- an explanation. He had not been re - tion with spies and infeimers,; she leased on bond. I bribed a guard to drove the United States into the war. -take him a message askin,g him what America and the Allies have won the he had done .with the money. Guess war, but the American people are not what he wrote back? 'I put it in a safe disposed in the slightest to forget place. Get me out on bend.' Then now. Bolshevism w -ill not be received I felt easier: I did get him out on with open arms. A hint of disloyalty bond. His bail was not fixed as high or plotting against America now may as some ef the others. quite easily mean the firing squad on "I went to hie house late that night , this side of the Atlantic yet." and was admitted. We met in his "Do not mention it, I beg you," said Lebrune with a shu.chier. "I confess I have not slept well. Thus ler no suspicion has been aroused against me, I am sure, but were we to slip I can quite easily •see where there would be a hundred, yes a thousand, hands turned against me." "You mentioned having ove.rplayed ',yourself," reminded the Government man, who had been merely toying with ! this unsuspicious schemer. The atti- tude of Lebrune had indicated to him that now was the psychological mo - ;meet to extract from this arch -plotter 12 great deal of information important the Governraent. Lebrune had reached the point where he felt it necessa-ry to confide in some ane and h,e figured there was no one so safe as this ,stippesed messenger and trust - 1 ea agent of the Bolshevist leaders. "I went to the banks as soon as Neilson was arrested," explained Le- brune. "I told them that my partner in the company had been arrested by the Government on some flimsy exeuse and that I wished to make arrange- ments for changing the order that his library. He was quite calm and cool about it, but I saw that he had a revolver in an open drawer af the desk at his side. I demanded to know what he had done with the money. " 'I have it where 7,Tou or no one else can lay hands upon it,' he replied. 'It is up to you to get me out af this scrape or you won't see it again. If I am sent to prison it will come in handy When I get out agar- I'll be an old man then and I won't want to start life over en nothing.' "I threate,ned him. He laughed. He dared me to tell the Inner Council. " 'They will think you got your half o,f it,' he said. 'They think it is in the banks where it can not be with- drawn unless., you, too, put your name to the cheques. Go ,alheadand tell them anything you want. They won't be- lieve you.' ' "He was right and I knew it. He had me. Then he tola rne that the only condition under which he would return the money was fox me to pre- vent hinn from going to prison if he were convicted. - " don't care howyou go about iit' he said. 'I don't wantto go to the enitentiary, but if I do go, I want to now that I will be paid for it. When I get out, there may be no Bolshevists haft. Probably thege won't be, And a million and a quarter will be a nice little stake to have waiting.' " Lebrune was talking fast and ex- citedly. Evidently he was highly wrought up. Charlton realized that the man must have been under a ter- rific strain. His lifewould pay if the Bolshevists discovered that their money was gone. As Neilson had teld him, they never would believe that Le - brume had been hoodwinked and had not bad a hand in its disappearance. "Then' what did yen do?" prompted, Charlton, woridecring if he were not going to waken soon and find that all this was only a dream, He resorted to htgak!lissI• sebSIteleltl'iloTil'!;9'°ulfUl Sudh "Don't raw., d'on't rave," beg god CI "Get -with your story." He himself had fallen under the spell of Stelle's heavity, and he did not care tee -have it discussed by thio schenilog eceuedrel, .."The gunman hired to kidnap the Judge wes her • lover," said Lebrune. Charlton steeled' himself to keep from driving the lie beck down the tie/Tat ba ch Gray Welfi'' But he held himself in check by a well-nigh super- human effort. "I" thought to hold a elub over him by having her admitted to the Inner " And to put himself in a poeition to work his will with the girl, thought teahlourv,It,eons,atnooleiNdnlisetnotr,st....his Part of ;the "Then she grew .angry at me." Le- brune glossed over his attempt to take .aclwantage of Stella. "I was <calling at hen room to tell of a meeting of the Council et, Which we were to discuss plans for using her as an emissary among the crooks of the city. This brute of e lover of hers," again Charl- ton took a grip upon himself, 'lion- , pened in and attacked me. "Then I realized that they held inc in their power. They had but to tell the police I had kidnapped Judge 'Gra- ham and Where he was hidden. The infernal old man had seen me, too, when I talked to him. Ile could iden- tify me as the man who had threaten - „ed him. I was in a tight fix. I :get nicitorcar and drove like ma.de out to the house where he was being held by two of ,this thug's hirelings, I3et 'the man and the girl were there ahead of me. .11e drove me off with hes re- -t)elved: That -*as this afternoon). I an afraid to. go hack. What shall I • He 'asked -the question as a child lyould an adult. "If you WiSql to go out 'there 'now I will accompany you.” Charlton hoped his eagerness for the trip was not apparent. "You say you have a car." "Wait here. , I Will have it on the eerier in ten minutes." "Better still, I will go with you." The Federal agent was of no mind to let "The -Gray Wulf" get away from him and, alone, have an opportunity to reflect that he lied confided in an ab- solute stranger. (Tobe continued.) fay MInard's Linrrnent tor BUN -13. etc. The Cooking Lesson. There's some that say I'm hard to please. (There, beat the batter light!) Well, nothing spells eternal peace so much as etarting right. Seine say a man must do his work, /110 matter what or when; I'm thinking all the doing doesn't fall upon the men. (Child! Mercy me! Your griddle's hot. This spoon will hold enough. It used to thrill me like a song to see the edges fluff.) Oh, yes, they shake their heads and say it's hard to get a start; Well, half the battle's over if a woman knows her part. But, child, don't think the cook- books hold the whale you have to know. The magic secret doesn't lie all in the biscuit dough. You've got to sing about your work, and when the hour is late, Just set your supper ready and go down beside the gate; The early stars, the whitest' plum, the pinkest apple trees!. (My first was such another batch, as crispy brown as these-) When he comes whistling through the woods, along the thisking pike— Land, pancakes mixed with sentiment! Whoever heard the like? The Clothes Moth. There are mare than one species of clothes moth thee riddle Our Sunday - best arid make it unfit for -wear, but the one doing the meet darnage is known as the case-eriaete" le, clothes moth. The deist...tact:ire work of the larvae of the elethes moths is only too well known when, during the summer inariths, they show their fondness for fur -r, woolens, carpets and clothes. The little yellowish or buff -colored moths may be seen at times fitting about the room, attracted to lights at night, or perhapa disturbed in their usual !haunts in the folds of garments or eurtains. They themselves are quite harmless, and eat no food, as they possess only rudimentary months. The destruction caused by these pests is then limited to the feeding at larval 'stage. - • The case-rnaking clothes moth makes a tiny transportable case for ith protection and when it feels, ewe - ries this around with it. The larva IS one-broaded, that is, there is only one generation a year. The time of year that the larvae are present, to create havoc in garments, furs, feath- ers and carpets, is from June to Aug- ust. At other times, it is said, no fear need be had. The moth is about then. either apply naphthalene or pyrethrum. Clething that Is frequeut- s IY bruelied is not eery apt to beetnne, infested, Correct Way to Sew on -a Button. (feeble thread ,seer, through cidth and button With knot between button *am' cloth. Now place a pile between the thread and butteii, draw- ing the thread tightly over it. Sew over the Tin until the button is as firmly attached as you wish.. Then bring the needle up 'between:the cloth I d. cl sevei 1 wrappings ot thiead about that which li,olds the button, SOW bask through the cloth, fasten. tlie thread, and remove the pin, 13uttens 'sewed,on in this way are always loose enough to be easily buttoned. A Prayer in Spring. Oh, give.us pleasure in the flowers to - And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us ' here All simply in tho springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing,else by day, -like ghosts by night; ' And make us happy in the lieppy bees, That swarm, dilating round the perfect trees. „ And make us happy in the darting bird That suddenly above the bees, is heard, The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill, And off a blossom in mid-air.L stands still. hall an inch long between the tips of the wings and dies right after the egg -laying is completed. The m nute, all -vet invisible eggs are laid on ma- terial that will serve as feed for the newly -hatched larvae. Sometimes they are laid in exacks he trunks so that the young larvae ,can.enter and enjoy a nice quiet existence among the ma- terials within. . Many 'experiments with various sub- stances have been tried against both the adult meths and the larvae, as well as the eggs. Some of the results are mentioned below. Naphthalene --This substance is a coal -tar product and very easy to ob- tain. It has been found o bauniform- ly effective in protecting wqolen gar- ments from being eaten by these pests and also in killing bath the larvae and adults. The fumes from this product seems to be the agent that makes these pests succumb. It was found also that the insect eggs treated .with thisi .m.aterial did not hatch. Camphor—Gum camphor used at the rate of five ounces to five cubic feet of space was effective in varying degrees. It is not as efficient as is the naphthalene and costs quite a lot more. Red -cedar Chest—During an experi- ment to determine the killing proner- ties of a red -cedar chest, seventy adult moths were liberated within it and at the end of sixty days not one of them was alive. The same experi- ment was tried again two years later usingthe same chest, and thb same results were olapained. Red -cedar chips and shavings, while not altogether efficient in killing the moths and keeping them from laying their eggs, will probably act as a deterrent to keep moths away from garments treatecl this way._ Pyrethrura—Pyrethrure was very effective, killing one hundred per eerie of the moths, when used at the rate of Sour parts of the pyrethrum to ninety-six parts of flour. It is also very effective against the larvae. Clothing can be protected if thorough ly dusted with pyrethrum powder. Nicotine and Powdered Tobaceo-ec Neither of. these materials were -found to be very destructive to the larvae, when used at ordin.aig :Strengths and if used strong enough to kill them the price would be almost prohibitive. Cloves and .oil of lavender were ef- fective in protecting flannel from the egg -laying moth, while some mate- rials that helped to control the larvae hwereol asmian eetpy'v rafly,eper cent. e aue sed as ethyl dahl co - and sodium fluterid as a dust. Mate - /fiats that were ineffective against the 'larvae Vete allspiCe, angelica root, borax, eucalyptus leiavee, fermalde- hyde, white hellebore, lavendee flow- ers lead carbonate lead oxide lime sodium blearbonate. Sulphur fumiga- tion has proven to be a very good way of killing the adults and larvae on a latge scale. Formaldehyde iS useless. A general suggestion on control measures -vvould be to earefully exam- ine ,and brush every garment before it is put away for the sufnmer and AUTO USEI) .PARTS , _ We carry a full line of,used parts for all makes of care,eterieted end' free:feet-II grease end dirt. .Magnetos, gears, springs, , ooniplere • engin," tires, etc. /littlest, prices, paid for old '„ears. Write, wire or phone .1.17TONOVIITill USED' PASTS 1030 DT1210110 Nt4- Toronto rialc4eilt; 4168. For this is love and nothing else is love, The which it is reserved for God above. To sanctify to what far ends He will, But which it only needs. that we tel - fill. . 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The web it 'spins is about six ;feet in diameter, and its mese is very strong. The eatives set up long bamboos bent over into a loop at the end, anil in a yere short time the spider weavee a web on these frames so kindly left for him, and the Papuan has his net made "while he waits." The mesh at the ,eittside of the web is about one inch square, and gets smaller and smaller until 'near the Centre it is only, perhaps, one-eighth of an inch. * Nlinard's 1...lnIment 'Relieves Colds, etc% • Running -,upstairs inetead.of irailing will Increase the week of the heeet by one4orurth, A .slab loff,solid geld, ,engraved., was the 'railway ticket presented by the Canadian Pacific ;Railway to the Prince .ef Wales during his tour of Canada . ...acr.......comarnxxxammonann..nrowscovaintn; Merchant PHONE YOUR ,RUSH ORDERS For anything in Fancy Goods, Cut Glass, Toys, Smaliwares., Sporting Goods Wire. Goods Druggists' Sun- dries, I-rardwa-re Specialties, etc., to MAIN. 6700 on a Reversed charge. 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Assoolation,5 one of immense i His statement appears to be per- , fectly, true, For many years past students of ethaoloey have been coin- menting,"on the fact that the true Saxe on type—the people with fair skin and hair and blue eyes—cannot suecessful- ly colonize really sumay eountries... On the fact of it, this may sound far fetched, tor we all know that Britons have founacel colonies- in every etlit'"` mate on earth, and that not only„.thei United States', but also Australia and parts of4frica are inhabited by'people whose ancestry is largely British. Seldom Found in the South. Quite so, but it must be remembered that ,only a comparatively small pro- portion of English people are of the blonde type, and these, though, as in- dividuals, they seem able to withstand sunny climates as well as anyone else, do not last oat, true t� type, in such oliotlis nia.tes see more than two genera - t1 believe it to be true that it is um known for the blonde type to pereist for three generations south at the Englise Channel in Europe, or south of the St. Lawrence in North America. Even Central Canada, north of the St. Lawrence, will probably prove too sunny for the Saxon type. One thing is very certain. Except for Seatidinavian immigrants and their imsncjiate descendants, blue-eyed, flax- en -haired people are rarely seea 10 the United tSates.. And where do you see them in Southern Europe?. in two places only. In the mountains of Georgia, a cloudy highland country, and a few -11 very few—among the patrician families of Italy. The only their fairness is ~that neither threason why the latter have preseey rl,Tieocil, their ancestors have ever lied to work - in the open, or expose themselves, Send for Book of, Recipes, FREE! A/rakes every dish—even bread pudding -L 'L—more popular with children and grown folks. Rich, pure, wholesome, economical. To be had at all Grocers. THE CANADA STARCH CO., LIMITED, MONTREAL rown r nd Syrup t -he Great STmetener" 25 .ii 'Now in, the time you tail kivaily iniprove the appear. once of you:r home :with a tench of paint here and ,. there: .:DOU'i tift0' yogr furniture and woodwork. / e..c%k...Of ipyts,A'o4.tritiipaiiaiitv.iy• work wonclere.eSeee. ii.iii, rriN SENOLIR ., VANISHES ,...,71::;_ht...taosi,i .4:4:9_0:::cd,::::„..,41:91:1/1.a:_i:;,.17.::::::..cauxt:::tb,..,:ip-.1.. a . NZ—the waohabte, -.7..' MAREL6, ITS --;Ve pot:foci fiagf4rV Ilitl'" °'4t Y"` P'." fie ri°21.11:61`ettetIlii.t'fikanti:thi . '9A" tub off. 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Always, se far as history tells us, it is the fair-haired races who have pro - ducted the conquerors, er,, atany rate, the rulers of the dark. Euglaud was conquered and colonized by tee Neese_ men, and in turn have conquered mast. of the rest of the world. It rieeme, therefore, that, in, the long run, it is Canada which Will rule America; and , New Zealand, Australia: 1 But it does not do to make up our minds too hastily on stioli a subject. 1 Transport facilities are increasing, and the arrival of the cheap flying- maceine will change everything. A hundred years from now the blonde - family may live during the"summer in Labrador, and the head of it go to his business each day in New Voris or Chicago, while it will be a simple mat- ter for the Englishman to spend his nights at herne, and his days admmis• tering Egypt or the Gold Coast. Ascension Day Discovery. Ascension Day, the day ou which the ascension of the Saviour is cammetn. ()rated, is often called "Holy Thin's, day." in the Christian Church this festival\is celebrated on -the .Thursday but one before Whitsuntide. In comieetion with AseensMn Day, it is interesting to recall that just aver four centuries ago a solitery rock about. forty-eiglit miles in eircumfer- once was discovered in the Southern -Atlantic Ocean on Holy Thursday. ,Qpnse5uent1y it Was namel ".Lsoen- , ancl,, though long iinin- habitee, it wes froquentlY, res.orted to by ships on account of the excellent -position of its harbot. • Ascension Isle is famous for several things. Its turtle has been the talk of 1he World for years. Then. there; exists on this. island a peculiar pose- • office, called the "Sailors' Post °trice." 'Phis -consists of a crevice in 0 rack, whero'letters were deposited, shut up iti a well-corited bettle, for the vessel§ • that next visited the island.' When Napoleon. Bonaparte was at St. Helena, some English families set-, tled in Ascension, owing to the incon- venience triey ,skfd they experienced from tile res.idetice of the deposed em- pror. Valle 'Which. was. in 1816, the ,;,stand Of A.scenston ryutarir. gai`risoned,, to guard against smy atv tempt on the part of Napoleon's f01.• ,- lowers ,t� react's), him. Whale fishers frequent As,oenston, • which Buffered muco from want o•f p , water till 1820, when 1., \coplots sprin. discovered.